Kuwaiti becomes hottest place on earth
- It was so hot in Kuwait last summer that birds dropped dead from the sky.
- Sea horses boiled to death in the bay.
- Dead clams coated the rocks, their shells popped open like they’d been steamed.
- Kuwait reached a scorching temperature of 53.2 degrees Celsius, making it among the hottest places on earth.
- The extremes of climate change present existential perils all over the world.